One problem that still needs work is the simple fact we still have a severe shortage of potential curators. Content producers seem to outnumber those who focus on sitting back and enjoying stuff. That needs to change but these people writing their pouting posts about not being able to lazy anymore certainly won't appeal to too many people. Again, those types aren't helping much, at all.

Most did suffer under that system. Even the ones who produced good stuff but got duped and lured into that trap ended up earning fuck all nothing while those selling the votes to them earned 90% or more of what their work could have been earning. It turned into a trap for sure. The vote sellers created a serious problem and then thought people would actually pay them to get out of that problem. People would purchase $50, put that beside their post, hundreds of them did it, making that $50 the new ZERO, they all blended in with the crowd, stole the visibility from those interested in producing real content and building real followings. Thousands were forced to leave. Damn right we're doing something right if the small handful of people who caused that mess go away.